Wednesday, October 16, 2013

As I was saying

Referring to his plan to preemptively send the Senate a House-passed
bill, Speaker John Boehner told his conference this morning that he’d
“rather throw a grenade than catch a grenade.” But with his right-wing
troops abandoning him again, it was the speaker who was left holding the
bomb.

After a day of furious negotiating with fellow Republicans
over how to tweak a bill he had unveiled in the morning, it was left to
stunned members of his leadership team to confirm to reporters that the
vote had been canceled...The canceled vote was no Twilight Zone episode, however, but
something far too familiar. Republicans eagerly compared it to the
fiscal cliff’s famous “Plan B” episode, when Boehner brought lawmakers
into a closed-door meeting in the Capitol basement, said the serenity
prayer, and told them the vote was canceled.